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'2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdoy, March 12, 1964 GOOD EVENING -- By JACK GEARIN -- WHAT'S NEW WITH THE WAKD SYSTEM? John DeHart, the tireless champion of the oppressed taxpayer, will be back before City Council Monday night. This time he will ask councillors why they have failed to act on that 400-name petition submitted last September -- it requested Council to put the question of the Ward system _on a plebiscite at the next municipal election in December. Mr. DeHart says the mat- ter has been on Council's agenda since October 7, 1963, without a reply to the petitioners described by Mr. DeHart as "home-owners from across the City." He added: "All we want is assur- ance from Council that such a plebiscite will be included in the' next municipal elec- tion. Unless we get. such assurance, we will make an appeal direct to the Depart- ment of Municipal Affairs'. He added that several alder- men were against the ward system because it would mean they .would be un- seated. Council should take a definite stand on the Ward system plebiscite, otherwise the electorate will suspect its mem- bers are apprehensive lest they lose their jobs. Alderman Gordon Attersley told the Coronation Home and School last January: "I understand the electorate rejected the ward system at the polls and that the local newspaper supported rejec- tion . . . I have no personal knowledge of pros and cons at that time, but I understand the rejection was due to the ability of a strong man in a particular ward securing the bulk of city services and improvement." ° In support of the present electoral. system, Mr. Attersley said: "There must be a central body to secure orderly de- velopment, Therefore, lacking a board of control, the pres- ent system is necessary to efficiently carry out the various aspects of planning, zoning, finance, schools, parks and recreation, etc. Aldermen under the present system must satisfy all areas, must be better informed and work much harder than would be required under the Ward system. Also, under the present system you are offered a wider choice in your selection of aldermen". (EDITOR'S NOTE: | If a wider choice is offered, why do seven of 12 current alderman come from the northeast area?) : Mr. Attersley. continued: "There are those who state that under the present system they really don't know many can- didates. A ballot is just a list of names, therefore, making an intelligent selection is impossible. I suggest all aldermen are as near to you as their phone -- invite them to your home, place of business, or a meeting in your neighborhood, if you really want to meet and know them." (EDITOR'S NOTE: Perhaps your favorite alderman would answer candid questions about Mr. Kevin Cahill's two reports, one on the Board' of Works Yard, the second on Parks.) The gist of Mr. Attersley's argument was in 'this state- ment: "I believe -- that regardless of which system is used -- the success or failure will depend on the type of aldermen you elect." Many taxpayers will find it hard to believe that alder- men under the present system '"'must satisfy all areas, must be better informed and work much harder than would be required under the Ward system." Mr. Attersley is assuming, and quite wrongly, that al- dermen under the Ward system would be strictly partisan, interested only in their own little bailiwick -- he failed to mention that the Ward system is extremely popular in cities of 50,000 to 1,000,000 in Ontario. JOHN DeHART « NDP SEMINAR TO FEATURE PARTY ORGANIZATION NOTES FROM THE HUSTINGS: a Robert 'Bob' Mackenzie of Hamilton will be one of the guest speakers Saturday at a day-long seminar on "Party Organizing'? for members of the New Democratic Party in Ontario and Durham ridings -- the seminar will be held in the United Steelworkers of America Hall, 115 Albert street. Arthur Schultz, a UAW Education director from Windsor headquarters, will also speak. Victor Ayling of Oshawa is NDP organizer for Ontario and Durham. The get- together will start at 9 a.m. PARIS HAS TOO MANY CARS, PIGEONS -- HART William 0. "'Bill" Hart, 1961-62 president of the Oshawa C of C, writes from London, England: 'People here com- plain of their traffic problems, but'our observation is that it moves better than it does in Toronto at rush-hour. Paris traffic is much worse with 17,000,000 cars (and _ twice that many pigeons) fighting for .a little progress. There they park in every conceiv- able space. You often see someone trying to park in a space shorter than the car. History permeates every- thing in Paris. We had breakfast in a dining room at the Hotel Ronceray on Boulevard Montmartre a plaque stated that Rossini write "William Tell' in that room" , . . Remember Nor- 'dair Airlines' unhappy busi- ness venture in Oshawa two years ago? Nordair was "BILL" HART roundly blasted on its local withdrawal for not promot- ing and advertising more. Whatever the real reason for its demise, it gradually withdrew service from all Ontario points. There was a reminder of this Tuesday --'the Kingston Flying Club discontinued its three-times-weekly service to Toronto and Montreal because of poor business. to hope that among such sub- stances, or their close relatives, will be found the long-sought, non-addicting, powerful analge- mc"" | He noted that much more | testing needs to be done on the |compound, tentatively named | "Cyelorphan."' ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) --| A dose equal to one-fortieth of Marshall D. Gates, a chemistry; the standard dose of morphine professor, reports he has dis-| will have the same pain-killing covered a compound 40 times|effects as. the morphine, he more powerful than morphine! said. and probably non-habit forming Gates reported on the com- The University of Rochester pound in the latest edition of professor said Wednesday: |the Journal of Medicinal Chem- "It is perhaps not too much istry. Discover Drug More Powerful Than Morphine -ithrough Friday over all OTTAWA (CP) -- Finance Minister Gordon says he. de- tects no signs of weakening in the current economic upswing, which now has lasted nearly three full years. In fact he said the late-1963 indications were that the ecuii- omy was actually gaining speed, At that point it alrcady had outlasted the 1958-60 ex- pansion but still was short of the booming 1954-57 period. In his pre-budget whit2 pa- per tabled in the Commons Thursday, Mr. Gordon esti- mated t last year there was a six-per-cent increase in gross national product--value of all goods and services produced. That would mean a level of $42,825,000,000 compared with $40,401,000,000 in 1962, when there was an eight-per-cent in- crease. Mr. Gordon made no fore- cast for 1964. Unofficial fore- casts are for an advance of five to six per cent. "Relative stability of most prices and costs" was cited as a key feature of the current growth, which has been going on since the economic trough of early 1961. PRICES UP 5 PC Since then prices have risen |five per cent, compared with the nine-per-cent increase of the 1953-57 period. Last year con- sumer prices rose 1.8 per cent compared with 1.2 per cent in 1962. Mr. Gordon said price in- creases have been léss than in GNP Up 6 Percent W. Gordon Says only slightly, with import prices 15-per-cent higher, On the other hand, exports in that period rose by about 46 per cent and most of this was due to real volume, which was up 37 per cent. Some statistics for the first 30 months of the current up- swing--that is, from April 1, 1961, to Sept. 30, 1963: --Corporation profits have in- creased 36 per cent. --Labor income is up cent. --lInvestment income grew by 15 per cent, --Exports of all goods and services rose nearly 25 per cent, --Personal spending climbed nearly 15 per cent. --All - government spending rose 16 per cent--though vir- Canada's two previous eco- Inomic upswings--with the ex- ception of higher food. prices, and wholesale prices which have been pushed up as dollar devaluation meant higher price tags on imported goods. Moreover, Canada's price in-| creases were less than those in Britain, and much less than in continental Europe and Japan, and "little more" than in the United States. The result: A_ strengthening in Canada's world position as en exporter. One key point made by the white paper was that in this expansion, compared with the two previous ones, Canada has been able to meet more of the steadily - rising consumer de- mand from its own production --relying slightly less on im-! |ports than before. | | This is illustrated by \figures: | In the 30 - month upswing! starting in mid-1954, imports lrase 42 per cent. In 1958-60-- |an expansion that lasted ex- jactly two years--they went up 14 per cent. But after the first) F d ] 2% years of the current climb, | e era imports had risen only 15 per cent, | An added factor in this pe- riod was .the upward plessure on import prices as a result of} |the dollar devluation, in May,| |1962. | 18 per these | governments. --GNP increased cent, OTTAWA (CP)--The federal | tax man gets the smoker com- EXPORTS UP SHARPLY ing and going. The white paper said imports}; The discomforting -- to the rose 18 per cent between 1956;smoker--story shows up. viv- and 1963 but volume increased /idly in the pre-budget white pa- PALMERSTON, Ont. (CP) -- |Investigators Wednesday gath- ered information for an inquest into the death of a woman fol- lowing an operation in which a surgical clamp was left inside her. ; Dr. H. B. Cotnam, Ontario's supervising coroner, and In-| spector H. M. Purdy of the pro-} vincial police spent several) hours at Palmerston General) Hospital where Mrs. Ina Noer,| 54, died Saturday, eight days af-| ter a gallstone operation. | They arrived in this town of 1,500 persons 35 miles northwest} of Guelph after Attorney-Gen- jeral Fred Cass ordered an in- |quest into Mrs. Noer's death-- |the second such inquest he has} jordered in a month, But the pathologist who con- ducted the autopsy and discov-| ered the clamp said that the clamp did not cause death. Dr. E. L, Barton said death ws caused by a '"'massive per-| itonitis" -- an inflammation of the peritoneum, the sac holding} the intestines and other organs.| Undertaker Jack Miller said) \Mrs: Noer's death certificate} |made no mention of a surgical) |clamp. He said it gave periton-| jitis as the cause of death. | No definite date was set for) the inquest, to be conducted by} Dr. Cotnam, but it was ex-| pecteq to be held in Guelph in jabout two weeks. | Mr. Cass also appointed Law-| |yer John A, Hoolihan as Crown! jcounsel. Mr. Hoolihan was} ;Crown counsel at an _ inquest) |that found two wecks ago that) \Patricia Morgan, 34, died from)pydqget last |"misadventure" in Toronto East| mer Contery |General Hospital Nov, 4, 18 |days after an operation in which} ja surgical clamp was left inside) her. The jury found Dr. Ken- neth A. Brown, Miss Morgan's jdoctor, responsible for the clamp. "It is obvious that we are' Pathologist Denies Clamp Killed Woman {per tabled in the Commons Thursday by Finance Minister Gordon, | First there is an excise duty jon tobacco, In the 1963-64 fis- cal year this yielded the gov- ernment an estimated $171,000,- 000 as the largest single pro- ducer among the commodities jsubject~to this levy. Spirits-- |whisky, rum, gin and the iike produced $127,000,000 and beer $102,000,000. {having a spate of these cases and I want all the informtion|~-- brought out that can be brought! | POPE) 7 A age Mr. Cass said. Years ago Parliament de- | He announced the inquest as|cided 'smokers should pay jthe funeral cortege for Mrs.|more. To accomplish this it the same hospital of a heartias well as the excise duty. In ailment Dec. 15, was forming.|this fiscal year ending March Mr. Cass said the clamp was/31 cigarettes, tobacco and ci- first reported to Wellington|gars are expected to provide County Coroner Dr. Frank H.jJanother $233,800,000, rank- Farmer who reported it to him.'ing second only to the more Net Debt Rises $50 Per Person OTTAWA (CP)--The net fed- He said he will ask Parlia- 'eral debt shot up during the ment to write off these defici-|leyied on commodities held by! jlast year by nearly $50 for each/encies to the net debt. It would the Crown until the duty is man, woman and child in Can-/be a bookkeeping operation-- ada. 'adding to the. liability side of That is about twice the year-|the government's balance sheet, to-year rise of recent ycars.|but not a charge on his budget. But it was due in large part to) At March 31, the: tota! net a bookkeeping addition to gov-| debt thus would stand at $799.10 ernment liabilities. jper capita on the basis of a Finance Minister Gordon re-/March 31 population estimate ported Thursday in tabling his|of 19 180.000. pre-budget white paper in the e anil 5 " Commons that the total net is hile ee on ee debt is expected to stand at|Per capita, with an estimated $15,136,000,000 at the end of this| 18,846,000 in population at month, March 31. While this is a $1,216,000.000) Mr. Gordon said that while increase in one year, only $685,-\interest on the federal debt-- 000,000 resulted from the gov-'$867,000,000 this year has ernment deficit. lbeen rising steadily in recent The remaining $531,000,000| years, as a proportion of total was added to the debt ot cover'téderal spending it has dropped an acturial deficiency re-|from 18 per cent-in 1950 to ported by Mr. Gordon in his/about 12 per cent this year. June--in the for- ~~ : amortization of superannuation accounts, ative government's Si i Cg GEE OTTAWA (CP) --- Planned business investment in Canada} is up eight per cent from last year at $5,804,000,000 more than half the anticipated record to- tal of $10,100,000,000, the trade department reported Wednes- day. It said this means an import-| lant expansionary influence on {the economy. Such spending in-| |tentions indicated that business- men "are viewing the economic outlook with confidence." The spending increase in the business sector of the economy would be about the same as the gain in 1963. An added factor this year is the scheduled April 1 rise to eight per cent from four in the sales tax imposed last year on production equip- ment and building materials. With government and housing investment added, the over-all) gain this year is expected to be| eight per cent, compared with last year's seven per cent. tually all of the increase was! This. would be the biggest falling $4,590,000,000 this year. by provincial and municipal] year-to-year increase since 1957.|The rise would come chiefly The record $10,100,000,000 in 12.9 per|capital outlays 'compared' with|--Particularly in primary met- 'about $9,300,000,000 last year. Tax Man Catches Smoker | | | general 1ll-per-cent sales tax yielding $930,000,000 as an .ex- cise-tax. revenue producer. | You can't smoke without a jmatch or a lighter and these} tw: icse. taxes yielding $1,300,000. | Adding it all up, smokers paid Ottawa $406,100,000, or 6.6; per cent of total government revenue estimated at $6,207,-| WOuld be also 40 per cent and in| the non |group, close to 50 per cent. 000,000. | |DRINKERS BETTER OFF That's more than drinkers pay into federal coffers. Spirits and beer are subject only to the excise duty. Wine is free of duty but is -subject to an ex- cise tax which -will yield $3,- }900,000 this year. The combined taxes from al- |Noer, whose husband died injnailed them for an excise tax|coholic beverages is $232,000 - |000,.or 3.8 per cent of the reve- nue total. None of this takes into ac- count revenue produced by the iféderal sales tax on all the jcommodities. These figures do} not show. separately in the white paper. Excise duties are levied un- der the Excise Act which dates back to Confederation in 1867. Excise taxes are levied under the Excise Tax Act which had Businessmen Up _ Spending In '63 0 articles are subject to ex-|§ The report tabled in the Com- mons by Trade Minister Sharp, is the product of a late-1963 sur- vey of about 20,000 individual companies plus other spending agencies. It was prepared jointly by the trade department and the bureau of statistics. This is one of the country's main economic yardsticks. Usually it is quite reliable. In the last seven years, the sur- vey has under - estimated ac- tual capital spending in four years and over-estimated it in three. The variation between in- tentions and actual spending in that period has been 2.4 per cent. Canada's eight-per-cent gain in 'the business sector for 1964 compares with an anticipated rise in capital business invest- ment of 10 per cent in the U.S. in the' wake of tax cuts there. Ontario's five-per-cent antici- pated increase would mean over-all capital expenditures to- from manufacturing investment als, textiles and transportation equipment. GIVES BREAKDOWN ] As for type of spending, the) department said its survey in- dicates spending of $6,700,000,- 000 on construction and $3,400,- 000,000 for machinery. Both fig- ures, if realized, would be rec-! ords, Sharpest increase in spending intentions among the industrial groups is in manufacturing, Its anticipated outlays are up 15 per cent from last year, com- pared with a 1963 increase of} six per cent. This includes a 40-per-cent rise in spending on new paper- making facilities. In the prim- ary metals industry, the gain} - metallic minerals} Investment plans in second- ary manufacturing -- industries call for a 10-per-cent increase. Main gains would be in trans- portation equipment, rubber, and textiles. In mining the increase would be 16 per cent, After a slight decline in 1963, the survey indicates an eight- per-cent rise this year in build- ing of new retail stores, office INTERPRETING THE NEWS By CARMAN CUMMING Canadian Press Staff Writer In the sunny days of last au- tumn, with the Moscow nuclear test-ban treaty signed and talk of cold war "pause"' in the air, Prime Minister Pearson ad- dressed the United Nations on the subject of advance planning for peace-keeping operations. Now, with March rains match- ing the discouraging reports of| more blood-letting on Cyprus, the 38th-floor planners at UN headquarters in New York are putting together a peace force in the usual pattern of confusion and vagueness. The picture isn't all bad, The very fact that the Cyprus force was authoriezd by the security council--with surface unanimity' --is remarkable. But all the problems against which Pear- son warned are present. Pearson divided these into four categories: Political con- trol, executive direction, finan- cial means and administrative co-ordination. NO GUIDANCE On political control, he visu- alized an enlarged security council with "balanced compo- sition'"' and safeguards on voting rights that 'conceivably could become the main arena for po- litical decision on questions which require urgent action." In the present case the coun- cil has nominal political control on the Cyprus force while exec- utive direction has been turned over to Secretary - General U Thant, But in fact Thant's mandate from the council is so indefinite as to give virtually no guidance on what the force will actually do when it gets to Cyprus and tries to stand between the Greek and Turkish factions. And the Russians, by abstain- ing on a crucial vote on turning Pearson Predicted UN Force Wrangle cost of an authorized peacer. keeping force should be borne: collectively by all members. HITS NEW LOW H The Cyprus force leaves this, principle in a shambles, hitting; a new low in financial confusion. , The Security Council, hoping , to avoid further tangling of the» UN crisis on finances, decided.; that countries providing troops, for the force should also pay for it, with other countries toss- ing some money in the hat if they felt like it. oy Aside from Britain, only one* Security Council member was" asked to provide troops. That© member, Brazil, refused on the" grounds it couldn't afford it. - On administrative co - ordina-* tion, Pearson visualized a com-~ pact military planning team" working under the secretary-° general and able to call on na- tional units trained and equip- ped for UN duty at short no- tice. 4 Canada has such a force, ready, A planned joint standby, force from the Scandinavian countries is still on paper. The Netherlands, only other country with a contingent earmarked for. UN duty, has not been asked to contribute. The crowing irony of the site uation is that, as Pearson said, those responsible for the neces+ sity of crash planning on peace orces "are often the first to criticize when the results are ereigna dh delayed or inade- quate." ae > TORME SUES GARLAND LOS ANGELES (AP)--Singer, Mel Torme Tuesday sued singer Judy Garland for $22,500. Hig complaint, filed here, said she , owes him that much on his con- tract as vocal arranger of her television show. over this power to Thant, have in effect reserved the right to tear apart Thant's handling of the force at any time during its three-month term. On financial means, Pearson said the UN could not function effectively without adequate fi- nancial resources 'and that the buildings and other types of! commercial construction. NEED... FUEL OIL? Call -PERRY Day or Night 723-3443 To The SALE LIST WITH PAUL RISTOW | REALTOR 728-9474 187_ KING EAST, OSHAWA its start as the special War |Revenue Act during the First World War. Excise duties: are| paid, Excise tax is paid by a person on performance of some action by him, such as manu- Special Weekly Message To Members Of {facture or sale of goods SHORGAS HEATING & APPLIANCES Industrial and Commercial The established, reliahle Gas Dealer in your area. 31 CELINA ST. (Corner of Athol) 728-9441 Ll Mr. Gordon said there was a} $525,000,000 actuarial shortage} in the armed forces pension} fund and the RCMP account| was $6,000,000 short, on an ac- tuarial basis. THE | WEATHER FORECAST Sunny F Forecasts issued by the Tor- jonto weather office at 5:30 a.m:| | Synopsis: Some very light) ;snow over southwestern Ontaria land a few light snowflurries | across central Ontario indicate the passage of another March) storm through the district. | Snowfall amounts will be rather light with a good chance that, some area will get none at all.! By evening the disturbance will! be well east of the district. | Skies will clear in behind it and| the fair weather will persist) re-| | gions. | Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, |Lake Huron, Windsor, London: |Friday sunny and warmer.| {Winds light. | Niagara, westem Lake Onta-; rio, Toronto, Hamilton: Friday| jsunny and warmer. Winds light. | | Eastern Lake Ontario, Hali- jburton, Georgian Bay: Clearing |by evening. Friday sunny and warmer. .Winds light Algoma, Timagami, southern hite River, North Bay, Sud- jbury: Mainly sunny and /warmer Friday. Winds light, Northern White River, Coch- rane: Friday mainly sunny and warmer. Winds light. |W Forecast Temperatuueus Low tonight, High Friday Windsor «25 St. Thomas 22 Kitchener .. 22 iMount Forest..... 20 | 45 45 45 | And Warmer riday Wingham ........ Hamilton ..... Prey St. Catharines.... Toronto Peterborough Trenton .. Killaloe .. Muskoka ,.. North Bay.secocees Sudbury . Eariton . Sault Ste. Marie... Kapussasing ..... 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